Join us for worship in the chapel as our series "The Posture of Prayer" continues. Dr. Russell Kleckley, Religion Dept., preaching.

Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center

Daily Chapel: Holy Week Series

Join us for worship in the chapel as our series "The Posture of Prayer" continues. Dr. Russell Kleckley, Religion Dept., preaching.

11:30am, Hoversten Chapel, Foss Center

Lunchtime Discussion on Cuba and Popular Education

Join the Center for Global Education and Experience for a casual talk with Carmen Nora Hernandez Chavez. We will discuss popular education and other general topics related to Cuba. Carmen is a popular educator, an expert on gender issues, and one of the founding members of the MLKC in Havana, Cuba. As part of the MLKC, she coordinates and imparts training workshops to people involved in community projects throughout Cuba. She has also worked as a consultant, researcher, and advisor on gender issues and the implementation of community projects for the United Nations Development Program and other international NGOs in Cuba and other Latin American countries.

12:00pm, Augsburg Room, Christensen Center

Study Abroad Info Session

Come by our office in Multicultural Center (CC2) for a general information session for basic info on finances, scholarships, academics, and how to find the right program for you.
Suite 2

The Augsburg College Department of Education and Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship invite you to a celebration of Democracys Education, a new book collection edited by Harry C. Boyte, senior scholar of the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship.
This event will feature Special Education at Augsburg College and its partners as outstanding examples of equipping students to change the world of work as civic innovators and citizen leaders.

4:00pm, East Commons, Christensen Center

SINGER SONGWRITER EXTRAVAGANZA

Come watch fellow Auggies show case their talent in the biggest Singer Songwriter event of the year!!! Come to Satern Auditorium at 6:30 PM, Tuesday, March 31st! There will be performances by AUGGAPELLA, POCKET CHANGE, ILLUSIVE WES, and LYONS AND LEGACY. There will also be gift card raffles which anyone who comes can enter for free!

6:30pm, Sateren Auditorium, Music Hall

Augsburg News

News Archives - 2011

Two Auggies on the Mercury MESSENGER team

MARCH 26, 2011

Last week, just past midnight after St. Patrick's Day, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft successfully slipped into an orbit around Mercury, the innermost planet. This was a difficult maneuver against the pull of the sun, and the groups of science teams around the country who have worked on the Mercury MESSENGER project for seven years were elated, to say the least.

Among these scientists are two Augsburg physics graduates -- Brian Anderson '82 and George Ho '91. Both work at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL), which serves as the manager of the Mercury MESSENGER project for NASA.

Anderson is on the mission's core team; he is a deputy project scientist and oversees the orbital operations planning to ensure that observations from all of the instruments are coordinated to meet the mission objectives. He is also a MESSENGER co-investigator for the work of the Magnetometer, one of seven scientific instruments on the spacecraft. This will measure the strength and variations of Mercury's magnetic field, constantly collecting field samples.

Ho is an instrument scientist for another of the spacecraft's instruments, the Energetic Particle and Plasma Spectrometer (EPPS), which measures the mix and characteristics of the charged particles in the planet's magnetic field.

The goal of MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) is to better understand Mercury, the planet with the oldest surface. It has been more than 30 years since data was sent from the Mariner spacecraft as it journeyed past Mercury but never orbited around it.

MESSENGER's successful entry into orbit was reached after a journey of 4.9 billion miles. The spacecraft was launched on August 3, 2004, and followed a path to Mercury that included a flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus, and three of Mercury before inserting itself into orbit last week. MESSENGER will remain in orbit one Earth year sending back data before returning. Its instruments were started up and testing began on March 24, with data transmittal set to begin on April 4.